hello good morning I’m Rafael Ortiz and
I’m 50 years old
I have come to speak the fingers of my
passions of how I found them from what
that I learned and still today I continue
learning from them in the past 17
years of finished 17 marathons for
train them about 65,000
kilometers that is the equivalent for
give you an idea to go around
to the earth by the equator
once and a half of the night there will be
imagined that is one of my passions my
another passion my profession and in it I
I develop as sales director and
marketing in an American multinational
in those same 17 years visit about 50
countries of the five continents and
hezbollah or the equivalent of going up and
lower the moon twice from the but by
what am I here because I am here
I’m here in the first place because I
breed in the tower saviñán the town
Guadalajara nicest same same
from Spain
well I think I ‘m going a little up
but I am alcarreño in second place
I’m here because this event is about
share and a lot of people I
question that motivates me to follow
running and the truth is that I think that
it interests many people and me
love to explain it
which leads me to affirm what is important
what it is to find and follow your passion in
third place I’m here because this is going
to dare to me I love the challenges
it’s true and this is here today for
me is a challenge and finally and maybe what
most important thing I wanted to share is
that what I am today
is the result of a series of
questions that I asked myself some time ago and
how those questions changed my
life to someone in the room knows who he is
this gentleman who cares
indeed the son of the wind what
nickname is a legend of athletics
he won everything you can say he is the
Usain bolt from a few generations ago and
here you have me having dinner with carl lewis
and good a little more hair more
young and handsome giving equal but os
you will ask what I paint with karl
luis as a few years ago she attended
work conferences in which he
it was the main exponent and it seems to be
that among the 600 attendees there was no
candidates to sit down to dinner with him
he did not imagine that laziness or
shame
The fact is that they asked me and I did not
I hesitated a moment and here you have me
what do you imagine we were
talking about running because he had
trained
logically always to shorten
distance I explained to him that what
I ran marathons and he confessed to me that
he is thinking that he is
posing when you reach your 50th birthday
running a marathon and I lacked time
so that the papers quickly and you
I started to organize life those who
they were there at the table said this one
the pot has gone this kid
Well, I started explaining what
had to do and how important what
important is that I think he listened to me
that I had in mind
in fact is motivated was the man
that after the end of the dinner
compromised with me and still keeps
this card where he thanked me the
help and committed to finish me
below five hours what
we had established in the plan months
Then I found the American press
announcement in which you effectively
it compromised what we had talked about
and I do not know something I humbly believe that I had
what to see in this ad but that is not
what is important is what is important
is what I learned that night and
I learned a series of things in the first
place that you have to dare that a
lot of people lots of people who
I was there he missed what for me
It was certainly an unforgettable night
not daring
in the second place I learned that passion
It is contagious to everyone we
we love to surround ourselves with people
passionate and I even learned that the
passionate people can influence and
even change the lives of others
people
which leads me to ask and tell you what
important that it is to search and find your
passion as soon as possible
and here you have me this is the arrival of
one of the marathons of about
how many years still and strong
handsome happy he was happy but leaving
Explain why and when
I started running then in the summer of
2000
I went on vacation and decided to leave
to smoke and to put a little in shape already
you know what happens when you quit smoking
true that you get fat you get
Michelin I wanted to keep the
tipazo and well then I have no other
option had to do sports and
I started running
in fact since that moment in my in
my luggage
never miss running shoes
Well the fact is that I started running
with this motivation and little by little
few months I was curious
challenge
the marathon the critical distance to the
42 kilometers and 195 meters and there I
I went I checked and finished the
marathon the pymi first marathon on it
2001 and since then I have not stopped
to run a minute later
years later I thought that he challenged three
low hours of three hours in the marathon
that has to be you can imagine is
a very tough challenge but good
I started to prepare
it cost me only four years four
attempts until I got down from
the four of the three hours
which leads me to affirm this sentence of
my namesake rafa rafa nadal and in fact
look, I think that first one that
decision that helped me give or
find with my passion to run and
that today you already notice is part of me
lifetime
In fact you could say that
first fan every I saw the summer of
2000
it changed my life and now let me
talk about my other passion and how
I found her my my profession makes
many years many you imagine you finish
studies and I found a job that
it was totally related but
I could study and I started working
still imperfect but a few
months
I did not like that, he gave me another
option look for another job more than
same
I find it boring monotonous work
that did not give me options to learn and and
will decide to expand our sights and look for other
other options
so I found a choice of
commercial that a priori was not no what
I wanted more but I did not know if
that yes that work was going to be better and goes
to be worse than the previous one what yes
it was clear was one thing what was
doing I did not like it and had to
change and that motivated me to change and
effectively at the end of the after
months
this was something else
It gave me the option of traveling and knowing
people definitely learn and I went
securing and today almost 30 years later
here you have me enjoying my
profession
the same question friends that motivated me
that motivated that first fan every time
I want to be that I do not want to become
is the one that helped me in my life
professional and that question again
changed my life but let me tell you
What do these two have in common?
stories because it ‘s story these two
stories
I will use this worn plan
gnawed of marathon the plan of
marathon training the one
used in the last ten years
It’s a super intense 1,500 plan
kilometers of training before
of the fateful day 5 days 5 or 6 days
a week and some take this plan as
you can imagine super intense from
the physical point of view and from the
mental point of view
in fact when I have a couple of
weeks to the race I agree
my wife is out there who can say
if I am right then complete this plan
It requires a series of ingredients that
here I number some
the desire to excel and to improve
always try to improve and in your
profession to be forming
constantly do not stay behind the
perseverance to not surrender to the
first change when you do not get
those get off the three hours
these ingredients friends that I
perfected pulo running I translate
I transmit them if I realize my life
professional and this is what I think that
have in common
but there is more there is much more
behind this this story behind
of these worlds lies the same
philosophy that begins with a question
I want to do it, I’m willing to do it
I am convinced that I want to do it
whatever this applies to any
decision once you have decided
do what
your excuses remove the barriers
disintegrates the outside kaka
Believe me believe that the cbi do all or
almost all and seo gone almost all
also the one of I do not have time that makes
The children’s heat is hot
but today not tomorrow well relax and relax
From there clear objective plan
work and gq such or no excuses
in my case and when I’m in the phase of
preparation go running tomorrow
The night is cold or heat is in
dubai or in guadalajara run it and for
end enjoy this path if not no
It’s worth it and if after a while
and you have hurt you do not enjoy something weird
same is not your passion look for it arrived
this point I have no more than
build the keys that have guided me
in all this way
ask yourself the right question that I want
be what I do not want to be I explained in
my case I never knew that I wanted
be but it helped me a lot to be clear about what
I did not want to be what I was not
willing to do
bush
to your passion and find my case
it took many years to find it but the
I found
there are people who have the fortune of
be born and know why what is your
passion to play the piano or for the
art or to paint I do not know is not my
case and I’m almost convinced that the
none of the other loans
I firmly believe that we all must all
look for happiness and that if there is something in
our life that we do not like
we have to do everything possible to change it
because if there is something that we do not like and
we do nothing then we will have to be
consequently respect us
themselves and from that moment on that
instant complaining can not be your
strategy
this agenda has always been with me
improve in something learns something every day and
and enjoy the road and dare and jump
spoke and if you can not just thing that is
very very normal
ask for help there are around a lot
of people wanting to help you in my case
so that the theme and finally look for its
inspiration has already been spoken of rafa
meat nugget and people who inspire
many people to me to me too but
besides finding inspiration
much closer in two people
my mother and my grandmother 2 alcarreñas that
they helped me to be like I am
but at the end of this whole story
at the end of this movie what counts
what really counts as this said
manchego universal
each one is the architect of his own
adventure of your own destiny
so friends there are no excuses to
it
thank you very much
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